Walls Are So Foolish

Glued to the TV, 1989
watching the Berlin Wall
meet its match in The People.

Walls never work,
though we continue to build them,
in the vanity of our own foolishness.

We build walls
to keep others out,
to keep some within ...

we build them
as a testament
to fear and bigotry.

Every wall built is a reminder
of our failure to live up
to our own best interests.

Every wall
shall fall,
sooner or later.

Every wall
will fail to curtail
the energy of freedom.

Though for a while,
a wall might prevail,
in the end, walls are weak;

they cannot contain the Spirit of God,
constantly moving across the plains
of the soul,

constantly
creating and recreating
in the darkness and in the dreams.

Walls are so foolish.